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Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap.

How the recycling symbol was created
Gary Anderson designed a symbol which we see everywhere nowadays
I studied engineering at the University of Southern California at a time when there was a lot of emphasis in the United States on training young people to be engineers. That said, I eventually switched to architecture. I just couldn't get a grasp on electronics and archircture seemed more concrete to me.
It was around that time that I saw a poster advertising a design competition being run by the Container Corporation of America. The idea was to create a symbol to represent recycled paper. One of my college requirements had been a graphic design course so I thhought I'd give it a go. It didn't take me long to come up with my design: only a day or two. 1.___. But I already had arrows and angles in my mind because on my course I'd done a presentation on recycling waste water. I'd come up with a graphic that described this process very simply.
The problems with the design I'd done earlier was that it seemed flat, two-dimensional. So when I sat down to enter the competition, I thought back to a field trip in elementary school to a newspaper office where we'd been shown how paper was fed over rollers as it was printed. 2.___ The three arrows in it look like strips of folded-over paper. I drew them in pencil, and then traced over everything in black ink. These days, with computer graphics packages, it's rare that designs are quite so plain.
I think I found out I'd won the competition in a letter. Was I excited? Well, yes of course - but not that excited. 3.___ So it just seemed like, of course I would win! There was a monetary prize, though for the life of me I can't remember how much it was... about $2.000?
When I finished my studies, I decided to go into urban planning and I moved to Los Angeles. It seems funny, but I really played down the fact that I'd won this competition. I was afraid it would make me looks as though I was interested in graphics, rather than urban planning. 4.___ I remember seeing it once on a leaflet which had been produced on recycled paper, but then it disappeared.
A while after graduating, I flew to Amsterdam for a holiday. I'll never forget; when I walked off the plane, I saw my symbol. It was on a big recycling bin. And it was bigger than a beach ball! 5.___ I was really taken aback. That was quite a long time ago though. Since then, I've got more qualifications and worked for quite a few different firms, some more environmentally aware than others.
I feel much prouder of the recycling symbol now than I used to, probably because it's so widely seen, Maybe this design had been more important to me than I'd thought. 6.___ There's more to me than the recycling symbol.
A. Still, I'd hate to think that my life's work is defined by it.
B. I used what I'd seen to create the image.
C. I'm no expert on recycling but I can certainly see its value
D. I hadn't thought about it for years and there it was right in my face.
E. I realise that seems ridiculous for something that's been so successful.
F. Also, nothing much happened to the symbol for a while.
G. I guess at that point in my life I had an exaggerated sense of my own importance.
 
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Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap.

How the recycling symbol was created
Gary Anderson designed a symbol which we see everywhere nowadays
I studied engineering at the University of Southern California at a time when there was a lot of emphasis in the United States on training young people to be engineers. That said, I eventually switched to architecture. I just couldn't get a grasp on electronics and archircture seemed more concrete to me.
It was around that time that I saw a poster advertising a design competition being run by the Container Corporation of America. The idea was to create a symbol to represent recycled paper. One of my college requirements had been a graphic design course so I thhought I'd give it a go. It didn't take me long to come up with my design: only a day or two. 1._E__. But I already had arrows and angles in my mind because on my course I'd done a presentation on recycling waste water. I'd come up with a graphic that described this process very simply.
The problems with the design I'd done earlier was that it seemed flat, two-dimensional. So when I sat down to enter the competition, I thought back to a field trip in elementary school to a newspaper office where we'd been shown how paper was fed over rollers as it was printed. 2._B__ The three arrows in it look like strips of folded-over paper. I drew them in pencil, and then traced over everything in black ink. These days, with computer graphics packages, it's rare that designs are quite so plain.
I think I found out I'd won the competition in a letter. Was I excited? Well, yes of course - but not that excited. 3._G__ So it just seemed like, of course I would win! There was a monetary prize, though for the life of me I can't remember how much it was... about $2.000?
When I finished my studies, I decided to go into urban planning and I moved to Los Angeles. It seems funny, but I really played down the fact that I'd won this competition. I was afraid it would make me looks as though I was interested in graphics, rather than urban planning. 4._F__ I remember seeing it once on a leaflet which had been produced on recycled paper, but then it disappeared.
A while after graduating, I flew to Amsterdam for a holiday. I'll never forget; when I walked off the plane, I saw my symbol. It was on a big recycling bin. And it was bigger than a beach ball! 5._D__ I was really taken aback. That was quite a long time ago though. Since then, I've got more qualifications and worked for quite a few different firms, some more environmentally aware than others.
I feel much prouder of the recycling symbol now than I used to, probably because it's so widely seen, Maybe this design had been more important to me than I'd thought. 6.__A_ There's more to me than the recycling symbol.
A. Still, I'd hate to think that my life's work is defined by it.
B. I used what I'd seen to create the image.
C. I'm no expert on recycling but I can certainly see its value
D. I hadn't thought about it for years and there it was right in my face.
E. I realise that seems ridiculous for something that's been so successful.
F. Also, nothing much happened to the symbol for a while.
G. I guess at that point in my life I had an exaggerated sense of my own importance.
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